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Question 1. What is the difference between cross-functional…
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1. What is the difference between cross-functional teams and self-managed teams? Self-managed teams _______ than cross-functional teams.
Group of answer choices
a. experience more member turnover
b. do not last as long as
c. enjoy greater autonomy
d. have less diversity in member’s functional background
2. Effective teams
Group of answer choices
a. tear down collective efficacy in order to identify weaknesses
b. have members who share mental models that reflect reality
c. give more weight to internal processes than to external processes
d. are highly cohesive, which improves decision making
3. At SEMO, the Academic Advising Council facilitates coordination of advising services University-wide. The Chair is the Director of Academic Advising. Members of the council include a faculty member from each of the five colleges, the Director of Career Services, staff advisors, and one undergraduate. This would be considered a
Group of answer choices
a. functional work team
b. self-managed work team
c. virtual team
d. cross-functional team
4. SEMO’s Psychology and Counseling Department is an example of
Group of answer choices
a. a cross-functional team
b. a functional work team
c. a self-managed work team
d. a virtual team
5. When a leader is in charge of a problem-solving meeting, he or she should
Group of answer choices
a. insist that the person who suggests a solution must defend it
b. ask judgmental questions to stimulate more creative solutions
c. identify someone who is responsible for causing the problem
d.separate solution generation from solution evaluation
6. According to Carson et al. (2007), the internal team environment promotes shared leadership when three dimensions emerge. Which is NOT one?
Group of answer choices
a. team members have a similar understandings of their team’s primary objectives
b. team members support one another emotionally and psychologically
c. all team members have input into how the team carries out its purpose
d. no one team member has greater hierarchical power than the others
7. Carson et al. (2007) found that
Group of answer choices
a. teams without a supportive internal team environment, but with good external coaching had strong shared leadership
b. smaller teams had stronger shared leadership, and thus, better team performance
c. the best predictor of team performance was good external coaching
d. a supportive internal team environment was more important to team performance than shared leadership
8. In Johansson and Woodilla’s article about Mary Parker Follett, Follett suggests that the “law of the situation” should determine how the group approaches a problem. This means
Group of answer choices
a. the formal leader should take charge because he or she has the legitimate/legal power of authority
b.that the formal group leader should decide who to assign the task to, either himself, or delegate it to a trusted team member
c. members with the greatest capacity/expertise need to work collaboratively to find a solution
d. the type of problem the group was dealing with should determine who should have the most power over the others – power should not default to the formal leader
9. For Mary Parker Follett, a good leader should want power _______ others.
Group of answer choices
a. over
b. in front of
c. beneath
d. with
e. behind
10. In Wang et al.’s article about shared leadership, the relationship between shared leadership and team effectiveness
Group of answer choices
a. was no longer significant after taking into account the positive effects of positive vertical leadership
b. was stronger for student teams than for work teams
c. was stronger attitude measures of effectiveness than for objective performance measures of effectiveness
d. was stronger for teams that shared traditional leadership behaviors than for teams that shared new-genre leadership practices
11. In weeks two and three we examined three types of leader behavior. The results of Wang et al.’s study suggest that the most important behavioral category for team effectiveness seems to be _______ behaviors.
Group of answer choices
a. change oriented
b. task oriented
c. people oriented
d. decision oriented
